Chapter 5

“Sit down and eat. Chae-eun, bring another lunchbox.”

“Yes…”

Still spaced out, she hurriedly brought one more. Since his arm was injured she had to open everything for him.

“Your daughter is this pretty and she’s kind too. Chairman, you must be happy.”

“She’s capable, she’s pretty, she’s got everything. The problem is she doesn’t have a man. Ha ha. If she had someone like Executive Director Cha here I’d set a date right away.”

Chae-eun couldn’t stand the direction of the conversation and cut in.

“It’s grilled atka mackerel. Will it be hard to eat with your left hand?”

“So this is Ms. Mackerel. Nice to meet you Ms. Mackerel. Are you a friend of Ms. Chae-eun? How did you end up in a lunchbox?”

Cha Gye-oh clumsily shook the chopstick-held fish like he was greeting someone.

Her stiff mouth corner said everything.

“Judging by the name it sounds like she’s female right.”

“Well I’m not sure. I just grabbed and grilled her so who knows if she’s female or male…”

“I said that so our lovely Ms. Chae-eun would smile. Ha ha.”

I see she muttered and forced the corners of her mouth upward.

“You met my younger brother yesterday, right. He’s so blunt you probably had a hard time but I heard you still landed the contract.”

“He’s your younger brother?”

“Just look at the names. Cha Gye-oh Cha Jae-oh. I’m a little more superior though.”

He was incredibly talented at saying things that left others speechless.

Like brother like brother. Both were something else.

The younger one was a crazy bastard who coated her whole body in cum and the older one was a man possessed by dad jokes and weird flirting.

‘The brothers are both…’

She didn’t like any of it.

* * *

The white hotel sheets still felt warm.

The warmth of where Kang Chae-eun had been lying.

“What the hell did I do?”

Jae-oh sat up and leaned his back against the headboard running a hand through his hair.

A sigh escaped him. He had gotten properly drunk for the first time in ages. The jet lag he hadn’t fully recovered from made it worse.

Still he hadn’t drunk enough to lose all judgment. What broke his judgment was her. The ridiculously beautiful Kang Chae-eun.

He fell right into her pace. Her pretty smile, her sexy outfit, the constant pouring of drinks he knew all of it was part of trying to close the deal.

He knew yet he fell for it.

She led the toasts she cared more about drinking than actual negotiations and he followed her right into it.

Next thing he knew he was sucking her lips and cumming all over her body.

It was something he never did and something he believed he should never do. Mixing personal feelings with work was shameful to him. Now he looked pathetic.

Sleeping with someone he met only hours ago, rolling around in a bed, and waking up next to her in the morning.

“So this is the infamous…”

Liquor entertainment. Body entertainment.

He hated Korea’s infamous corporate culture more than anyone yet he became the biggest victim.

No, he enjoyed it.

He felt hollow. Not only because she wasn’t lying next to him but because he fell for the exact method he despised.

He saw her intentions clearly yet still let it happen. He felt stupid.

She walked out of the hotel room with the face of a proud hero who completed her mission. Leaving him behind.

Still he didn’t regret losing his virginity. Last night was insanely good. Heavenly even.

“What exactly counts as sex and what counts as…”

He hadn’t penetrated her so could he still call himself a virgin.

He sighed deeply at the pointless thought.

Her expression last night said she didn’t care much about what happened so he couldn’t bring himself to stop her.

Is this really how business entertainment ends in Korea? He had no idea.

His entire belief system wavered. He always thought men who fell for a naked woman’s temptation were idiots and he was different.

But reality proved him wrong.

Maybe he simply hadn’t faced temptation like her.

Realizing he was no different from those other men made him laugh emptily.

The only reason he resisted temptations until now was because none of those women were Chae-eun.

“Did she… eat me alive.”

He muttered into the air. Anyone could see he acted like a crazy freak yet somehow he felt like the victim.

It was his first sexual experience.

Back when he was in college in the US he stayed in a dorm.

Like lice spreading in elementary school one person brought body lice and it spread everywhere through the dorm. He remembered seeing students scratching their groins around campus. It felt more horrifying than any STI.

Everyone slept around like animals so body lice became a trend.

Because of that he developed a weird obsession with cleanliness. Sex disgusted him. Naturally he never dated.

And sex with someone he didn’t know. What if he caught something.

He never had the time or the desire.

And yet how long had it been since he returned to Korea that he fell for a honey trap and caused a disaster inside a hotel room.

He couldn’t believe it. The shock stayed heavy on his chest.

He felt guilty.

Pretending to be the victim but he started everything and ended everything.

He was the one who kissed her first and the one who went wild on her sleeping body.

He thought his mind might waver but believed his body wouldn’t react.

He overestimated himself.

Everything he thought he had firmly built collapsed. Now that he experienced physical pleasure he felt like Adam tasting forbidden fruit for the first time.

He couldn’t believe he did this.

She would think of last night as just a passing incident.

But for him it wasn’t possible. The hazy eyes she looked at him with while moaning stayed burned in his head.

He didn’t even know what he was longing for now.

Was it because his principles collapsed in a moment or because he didn’t get real sex.

What was light for her maybe one of many nights felt unbearably heavy for him.

Ah the unbearable lightness of being.

Nothing else came to mind. Even the body lice he hated so much disappeared from his thoughts. The only thing in his mind was Kang Chae-eun’s pussy.

He wanted to see her again. That thought made him think it was a good choice to sign with VOUME Planning.

If they worked together he had no choice but to see her again.

He rose slowly. He pulled the messy sheets aside and walked to the bathroom.

His cock twitched as if expecting to see her in the morning and he wanted to jerk off.

But after feeling her hand he knew simple masturbation would never satisfy him again.

He dried his wet hair and picked up the shirt he had thrown aside.

“How desperate was I?”

One button was ripped out leaving only a few loose threads.

He searched the floor for the button and finally found it near where the shirt landed.

He picked it up and slipped it into his pocket.

How many mistakes had he made in just one night. He would need more than ten fingers to count.

Everything began twisting from the moment he shook her hand. He fell at first sight.

At the same time a faint irritation stirred. Had she slept with other men like this. Did she show them that cute expression and those sounds too.

“…F*ck, seriously.”

Shapeless jealousy filled him. He threw on his jacket and left the hotel. He wanted to slam the door but it closed slowly with pressure. Even that annoyed him enough to curse under his breath.